Sex and the Single Girl Movie Poster: Museum Object and Cultural History
Sex and the Single Girl Movie Poster: date made: 1964. depicted (sitter): Wood, Natalie. Associated Name: Fonda, Henry.
The object in the museum catalogue
Poster for the 1964 comedy film Sex and the Single Girl named after the 1962 book by Helen Gurley Brown. The stars of the film, Natalie Wood and Tony Curtis, are featured on the poster. The film was directed by Richard Quine and also features Henry Fonda, Lauren Bacall, and Mel Ferrer. Sex and the Single Girl brought in $8 million in the box office and was in the top 20 grossing films of 1964.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1964
- depicted (sitter): Wood, Natalie
- Associated Name: Fonda, Henry
- Associated Name: Bacall, Lauren
- maker: Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc.
- Object Name: movie poster
- Object Name: poster
- Physical Description: ink (overall material)
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 40 in x 20 in; 101.6 cm x 50.8 cm
- Subject: Motion Pictures
- Subject: Movie
- Subject: Entertainment, Film
- Subject: Comedy
- ID Number: 2013.3086.01
- nonaccession number: 2013.3086
- catalog number: 2013.3086.01
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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